Government loses Labour majority in hollow victory

37 Labour rebels defy Government on 42 days

Following the Government's narrow victory on 42 days, John McDonnell MP, LRC Chair, said:

“Any attempt to present this as some sort of victory for the Government will ring absolutely hollow. There will be widespread consternation among our supporters in the country seeing a Labour Government prepared to use every tactic available in its determination to crush essential civil liberties, which have been won by the labour movement over generations.

“This is no way to run a Government. Securing votes by threats, bribes and personal pleading demeans the role of the Prime Minister. Backbench Labour MPs from all sides of the Party have looked on in disbelief at how the Government has mishandled this issue.

“This is not the end of the battle over 42 days, merely the beginning.”

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